Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people, but other species as well. Neanderthals bore stout jaws and broad noses, their features jutting forward like cliffs of bone. Chimpanzees, our ...

“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest human face in Western Europe, potentially rewriting the story of human evolution. The ancient human nicknamed 'Pink' lived in Spain's Iberian Peninsula ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

Modern humans have much smaller and softer-looking faces compared to our ancient relatives like. But why is that? A new study ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites in Burgos, Spain, has just broken its own record by discovering, for the third time, the oldest human in Western Europe.

Ever asked a question and been met with a blank stare? It's awkward enough with a person—but on a humanoid robot, it can be ...

Homo antecessor showed us the oldest face of modern humanity. In 2007, in the Sima del Elefante (Pit of the Elephant), a site no more than 300 meters from the Gran Dolina, the oldest human in ...